Interlude

.o.

Eileen never believe in pureblood supremacy. It wasn't logical and it wasn't healthy for a small population to keep having children between themselves. She always suspected as much when she was just a child being fed the fallacies of how purebloods were superior and after meeting muggleborns at Hogwarts, she was sure that everything was just hippogriff shit.

When Eileen was seventeen, she fell in love with Julius Peterson. He was an adventurer, a people's person, he liked to party and drink until pass out. Julius was a muggleborn and half of Hogwarts hated to see how talented and brilliant he was.

They dated their whole seventh year. They had to keep it hidden because of her family, not even her friends knew about them.

When they graduated, her parents came to the ceremony and left just after it finished. They asked her to come with them, but she said she wanted to ride the Hogwarts express one last time. Truly, she wanted to have a last ride, but she never got do it.

Eileen never returned to the Prince Manor, she had run away with her beau and they explored the world. Of course, it wasn't an easy choice to leave everyone behind, but she wanted to live, really live, for a while before coming back at her duties as Lady Prince and start studying for her Potions Mastery. She planned on returning with Julius and marry him before her parents and friends.

For now, she wanted to live an adventure with Julius. And what an adventure it was, because for the girl who had not met any other country and had extremely protective parents, every new place she went it was like a whole different world.

They partied at every place they visited, drinking, drugging, having sex like bunnies everywhere... It was the best five months of Eileen's life.

But every tale as its own tragedy. Always.

A day before Eileen met Tobias, she had fallen off the top of a hotel's stairs that she and Julius were staying. She had panicked a bit after seeing her broken arm, but Julius had quickly rescued her and after a throughout scan, he mended everything that was broken, twisted and split.

He was calm, but when he looked at her medical scan… He became so nervous, that Eileen didn't even want to ask what he had saw there. She let him take care of her, because he trusted on his talent on healing magic. He did not disappoint, he treated her with care and patience. He was a precious boy.

The next day, they went to London to meet Julius' childhood friend, Tobias Snape.

Eileen met Tobias while they were partying, he was a stern looking muggle, but very easy to talk after a few drinks. Everyone was having a good time and Eileen was laughing almost hysterically because of alcohol and childhood stories Tobias was telling her.

Then everything went black.

When Eileen woke up next day, she looked at her boyfriend and felt something strange . She knew she loved him with everything she had, but something was amiss…

As she kept looking at his angular face, she saw the moment he started woke up. When he looked at Eileen the first thing he said was, "So are you really pregnant?"

Eileen was shocked, but then like a lightning, she knew that indeed she was pregnant. "I'm," she confirmed.

"We are going to live at my parents' old house. We've been traveling so far, but we need to settle down," he said with a emotionless voice.

Eileen tried to hold the tears that suddenly threatened to spill. There was silence for a long time, before she confessed, "I don't think I love you anymore," she said as tears fell from her face and soaked her pillow.

Tobias looked at her with dead eyes, that frightened her a bit, but she knew it was better to just ignore. She knew that he had a strange behavior.

"But we have a baby now and we need to take care of it…" She said looking at him, waiting for his answer.

Tobias turned his face away from her as he spoke, "Can't your parents help us?"

Eileen sobbed as she heard the question, "They disinherited when they discovered our relationship, Tobias, you know that. They are dead now, but I still can't have access to anything…"

"So it'll be just on me," Tobias said letting his resentment show. "Great."

.o.

When Eileen pregnant belly started to show, they were already installed on Tobias' parents old house. They shared the same bedroom, the same bed, but haven't touched each other since the day they discovered she was pregnant. They kissed once, when they married, and it felt so wrong that Eileen started to cry for their love that one they had but disappeared. The few people who were at the church, thought she was crying from happiness.

She was thirty weeks pregnant when Tobias suddenly looked at her and said that he had doubts that her child was his.

Eileen looked at him and wanted to deny it, wanted to say that since they met, she hasn't been with anyone beside Tobias. But… She couldn't do it, it was like a crazy feeling that made her doubt that her child was also Tobias'.

The resented looks started to appear since that day.

Eileen had to look away from them, if she didn't want to spend the rest of day crying.

She was broken woman.

Everyday she mourned, but she didn't know what she was missing. Not like it mattered anyway… Day by day she started to fade away. The once bright witch couldn't come out of her own misery. Tobias worked in two jobs and only came home to sleep, shower and eat.

Giving birth to Severus returned the life to her, but just a little. She was diagnosed with postpartum depression by the muggle doctors, but she didn't care at all because she was a witch. Wizards and Witches don't have muggle diseases.

But then, maybe she wasn't a witch anymore. She couldn't do the same level of magic as before. She got really tired after doing one simple spell and by each failed spell despair started to invade her mind. So when Severus was four, she locked all her things in the basement and never touched her wand again.

As the time passed, Tobias realized that Eileen never loved him, and in the day that little Severus had his first accidental magic, he started to resent the boy and magic, because it reminded him of Julius. His fucking childhood enemy that he hated so strongly that he shouted and fought and got drunk in pubs. He couldn't even remember why he hated him so much, it was just there. Making him sick every time he thought about him.

It was in one of his fury driven episodes that Tobias hit Eileen for the first time. It felt good to hurt her. To make her suffer as much as he felt himself hurting.

The next day, when he woke up hungover and sober, he threw up thinking about what he did. He promised himself that he would never do it again.

But it just became worse.

For years, his days were a haze of fury, drunkenness and sorrow.

It wasn't a life.

Until one day, the house was suddenly empty. Severus was away at his boarding school, but Eileen should be home like she usually was. But no, the house was empty. He went to his bedrom and all their wardrobe was empty. Even his clothes weren't there! As he looked around, he finally noticed that there was a strange object, a crystal ball, above a big trunk on top of his bed. Curious, Tobias touched the small crystial ball. Suddenly, his vision blacked out and he felt like his head was floating.

Then he lost consciousness.


Eileen's story... But what happened at the end?